"To rail against" means to strongly criticize or express anger towards something or someone.
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And it's funny how so many of those
who rail against human sexuality seem to get caught have so much illicit sex.
To do so would
rail against many long established and common principles in our respective legal systems and culture.
I
just rail against the idea that the only way to score at the end of the game is to have a coach draw up a play.
Since you constantly
rail against others for how they're destroying the environment, I would have expected that you would take a few extra steps to protect your corner of it.
Rather than
rail against regulations, savvy business leaders should position their businesses to stay innovative no matter what regulatory environment they find themselves in.
A valued source for business journalists, he likes to
rail against outrageous executive compensation at publicly traded companies.
Would it help if I found some articles where mainstream politicians on both
sides rail against judicial activism?
While families in affluent parts of the state
rail against assessing student learning, children in high need communities suffer.
So you can't use that argument and
rail against Let Me In without making some distinctions.
For as much as the legal - writing
academy rails against the passive voice, few attorneys can distinguish a true passive construction from a false positive.
It took like four coats to look decent and even then I don't think I ever got the
bed rail against the wall painted.
Yet, unlike some speakers
who rail against them, I don't mind the use of slides — as long as they are used properly and in service of the audience.
The «old media» that Wired magazine regularly
rails against in its articles have greeted the company's precipitous comedown with no little schadenfreude.
During the campaign,
Trump railed against President Barack Obama's use of the power, which has the benefit of not needing congressional approval.
GOP gubernatorial candidate and Dutchess County executive Marc Molinaro was in Buffalo, where he
also railed against Cuomo, saying he «believes he is the government,» adding: «I'm sorry, he's wrong.
He didn't give too many specifics about what such a bill would actually entail, but reiterated his larger theme
of railing against companies who have operations abroad.
A rep for Spitzer said, «This is the same person who
railed against President Obama,» referring to when Della Femina unloaded his East End spread at the precipice of the fiscal cliff.
Oh yes, we will never forget the Muslim President who was criticized by the same group for being Muslim AND for attending a Christian Church for 15 years with a Preacher of whom some
people railed against as being unChristian... It appears the Christians will never be happy untilk we turn the Government (and out privaye homes, well, the bedrooms anyway) over to them.
«You can
not rail against poverty in the city of Syracuse on one day, and then the next day take away Planned Parenthood,» Miner said.
Cuomo railed against President Donald Trump and his administration, saying they are «anti-American» and opposed to everything that King preached about.
The millionaire Buffalo businessman, who last week became his party's candidate for governor, has shaped much of his Tea Party message by
railing against government spending and vowing Draconian bureaucratic bloodletting.
We have been changed by it, and what I once
railed against God for I can now say is the thing in the world I'm the most thankful for.
While railing against California for its so - called sanctuary immigration policies, Trump referred to some people who cross the border illegally as «animals» — drawing a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders for the harsh rhetoric.
Even
when railing against grave injustices, we need to be organized and strategic; we need to include often mundane facts and details; we need to discuss dense, arcane legal precedent.
Barber also
railed against charter schools, which he says only add to inequality and isolation of poor students.
Yet the politics of Haring's practice, whose expressions range
from railing against corporate greed to allegorizing environmental degradation, are often overshadowed by the universal uplift of much of his iconic imagery.
Standing before a crowd of unionized hotel workers several hundred strong, the governor of New York
rails against Republicans for feeding workers like them a lie all these years.
Despite then - candidate Donald Trump
repeatedly railing against the inequities of China's economic practices, the countries most likely to take a hit are U.S. allies in East Asia and in Europe.
While this point might strike some conservatives as a suspicious attempt to smuggle in the «precautionary principle» (a principle my friend Indur Goklany
once railed against in a book I commissioned and edited when I was at the Cato Institute), it is intuitively correct once you think about it.
Soaring gas and electricity bills are potent politics, but a leaked analysis for David Cameron does not support Canute -
like railing against green policies.
BEIJING — President Trump lavished praise on Chinese leader Xi Jinping here Thursday, touting «great chemistry» between them while refusing to criticize his counterpart for the trade imbalance that Trump
railed against during his campaign.
According to critics, that means the Democratic governor is approving «pork» spending that skews to support powerful incumbents: Republicans in the state Senate and Democrats in the Assembly — even
after railing against spending for «pet projects» earlier this year.
On Monday, Cuomo
railed against corporate CEOs when he spoke to union workers who are on strike against the Charter Communications Company, which provides cable service to much of New York under the name Spectrum.
Standing near a City Hall subway stop, Staten Island Assembly member and GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis
railed against Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of the city's transit system and its state - controlled operator, the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Both Holmquist and Jordan also spent more than two
years railing against pay raises for Mahoney and the legislature.